The Qiang is an old ethnic group now having a population of 190,000. Records of the group can be found on unearthed bones and tortoise shells with inscriptions of the Yin Dynasty over 3,000 years ago. Today, the Qiang people live in compact communities in Maowen County of the Aba Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. They generally use their own spoken language and the Han Chinese script.